on the other hand, they did a head to head match-up between christie and hillary clinton and she wins 49-45% in new jersey. >> right. none of that is really important because it isn't chris christie who is the face of the republican party, for better or worse, the 27/7 news cycle have made john boehner and mitch mcconnell the face of the republican party to the american people. and john is right, the message is terrible. they are opposing the buff et rule, that has been advanced by senate democrats as getting out of the sequester. it says millionaires should pay a percentage on their taxes no matter what deductions they have and that percentage is about what the average working american pays. what's wrong with that? why don't the republican party embrace that? >> let me ask you, john, about the piece that kathleen parker wrote in the "washington post." it's time for rinos, republicans in name only, to take back the party. rinos need to be defy antly proud and centrist and unapologetically sane. is that what you're saying too? >> not at all. i think conservative principles have not fai